Hello,
I had a reef tank for a few years with some success with only softies and fish. I had to sell everything off due to being relocated all over the country for work. When we built our house, I decided I wanted to get back into the hobby due to finally settling down. I’m looking for feedback to see if I’m ready for acros. Tank has been up for 8 months now-
Tank details-
Planet Aquariums 120 started with life rock, live sand.
4 Gen 5 XR15 Blue
Dual core 20 pumps, 1 feeds Aqua UV and left return. Other feeds activated carbon and return
Trident doing adjusted dosing with DOS pump and all for reef. Testing 6 times a day
Reef Octopus INT150 connected to a line outside
6 stage RODI
Automatic water change from mixing station using a DOS from the garage
ATK from garage to tank
4 MP40’s, 2 running with wide flow running alternate flows throughout the day
Tropic Marin Reef Pro salt
Trigger 39 sump with fuge growing Chaeto under AI prime fuge light opposite of light cycle. Roughly 40 marine pure squares.
Parameters-
The parameters have been solid for 1.5 months, all are tested with Hannah/Trident/Red Sea for nitrates
Salinity- 1.025
PH 8.8 down to 8.1 at night
Nitrate- 4
Phosphate- .01
Alk- 8.4 to 8.43 pegged with Trident
Cal- 483
MG- 1393
Temp- 78.1
Have an Apogee 510 for PAR testing
What coral I have has been doing great, all of the coral is put through quarantine in an IM20 using a G4 Pro with diffusor.
Right now I’m getting a few spots of green cyano on the rocks over the past couple weeks, has not spread at all.
I decided to add a birds nest 2 weeks ago and so far it has responded great. I wanted to know if there is anything I’m missing, feedback on if it’s too early for acros, or any you can recommend I start with. Here is a video of the birds nest and a photo-
I had a reef tank for a few years with some success with only softies and fish. I had to sell everything off due to being relocated all over the country for work. When we built our house, I decided I wanted to get back into the hobby due to finally settling down. I’m looking for feedback to see if I’m ready for acros. Tank has been up for 8 months now-
Tank details-
Planet Aquariums 120 started with life rock, live sand.
4 Gen 5 XR15 Blue
Dual core 20 pumps, 1 feeds Aqua UV and left return. Other feeds activated carbon and return
Trident doing adjusted dosing with DOS pump and all for reef. Testing 6 times a day
Reef Octopus INT150 connected to a line outside
6 stage RODI
Automatic water change from mixing station using a DOS from the garage
ATK from garage to tank
4 MP40’s, 2 running with wide flow running alternate flows throughout the day
Tropic Marin Reef Pro salt
Trigger 39 sump with fuge growing Chaeto under AI prime fuge light opposite of light cycle. Roughly 40 marine pure squares.
Parameters-
The parameters have been solid for 1.5 months, all are tested with Hannah/Trident/Red Sea for nitrates
Salinity- 1.025
PH 8.8 down to 8.1 at night
Nitrate- 4
Phosphate- .01
Alk- 8.4 to 8.43 pegged with Trident
Cal- 483
MG- 1393
Temp- 78.1
Have an Apogee 510 for PAR testing
What coral I have has been doing great, all of the coral is put through quarantine in an IM20 using a G4 Pro with diffusor.
Right now I’m getting a few spots of green cyano on the rocks over the past couple weeks, has not spread at all.
I decided to add a birds nest 2 weeks ago and so far it has responded great. I wanted to know if there is anything I’m missing, feedback on if it’s too early for acros, or any you can recommend I start with. Here is a video of the birds nest and a photo-